The Translation Zone
Subtitle: A New Comparative Literature (Translation/Transnation)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691049977
Subjects: Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Translation & interpretation; Politics / Current Events; Literary Criticism; Translating and interpreting; General; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Politics - Current Events; Translating & Interpreting; Traduction; Vertalen.; gtt
First sentence: The urgent, political need for skilled translators became abundantly clear in the tragic wake of 9/11, as institutions charged with protecting national security scrambled to find linguistically proficient specialists to decode intercepts and documents.